DLA123-0002  Transcription

22, LENNOX GARDENS.

S.W.

Dec 31st [possibly 1913]^[1]

Dear Mr de László

I will sit in February with pleasure^[2] – On Christmas night my pretty [nine?] had a family dinner party, – & we all put on “make shift” fancy dresses. it is a game, one has to get up a fancy dress impromptu out of nothing & the best gets the prize – I would like you to have seen

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what some of us looked like! The results were too wonderful – I was a kind of renaissance siren of sorts!!! quite- incorrect but so extraordinary looking that I wished your artist eyes could have seen the effect

Listen – will you come & have dinner here one night next week which ever night you like? & I will dress up again, & my daughter

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also. I believe it would amuse you. I thought for a head it would be a perfect pendant to your Indian Prince [possibly 5725]. [sketch of a woman wearing an elaborate headdress and jewels]. Hair in two plaits & a big russian necklace I have of sapphires & pearls & diamonds hung from the side of the [band?] round the head like a “gorget”. I have a whole parure of these jewels, head orniment [sic], dress orniment [sic] earrings etc etc, they are rather [illegible] &

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looked too wonderful. I would like you to see the whole thing. Do come to dinner. My brother in-law sings divinely and we can have a nice evening. I will ask Lord Curzon^[3] although I dont know if he is in London, or ever goes out except to state dinners but perhaps he would come to see you, & this red haired lady dressed up in things (& [illegible]!!!) of her former life, when she was not just the virtuous & dull mother of this one but lived in Venice & was a vampire & let her fancy play!?

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Do come I think you would be entertained. – No – on second thoughts I wont ask my daughter as I am always good and quiet looking then & I wish you to see me thoroughly wicked & what I was when I lived in [19th?] Century!!!

Yours

E.G.

Editorial Note:

Elinor Glyn, née Sutherland; married name Mrs Clayton Glyn (1864-1943), British novelist and scriptwriter; for biographical notes, see [5361].

LR

15/11/2018